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from Guadeloupe ; but, notice well, it is not flattened but, quite 
the contrary, very high in the crown, a decisive proof against the 
justice of the classification generally called “ deformed Carib.” 
Finally, there are at Paris several other crania coming from the 
Lesser Antilles called Carib, which have been measured by mod- 
ern methods. But, mark well, they are not deformed; that is to 
say, Dr. Montané does not possess the measurements of a single 
deformed Carib cranium. 
Consequently he undertakes to discover resemblances between 
this and crania from Ancon, in Peru. He reports the measure- 
ment of two types of these the deformed and the non-deformed. 
The figures published in his work, if they prove anything, demon- 
strate that the skull in question is not Carib at all but of the non- 
deformed from Ancon, Peru. 
On the contrary the report of M. Graells, Vilanova and Perez 
Arcas, signed by a large special committee of the Museum of 
Madrid relates to the two crania discovered by Sr. Ferrer.) The 
authors do not hesitate to recognize the resemblance between the 
two skulls before them and those generally called deformed Carib. 
They declare that a complete study of the question of artificial 
flattening is impossible without a numerous series of the same 
orm. They close by saying that in relation to the two crania 
before them, they do not believe that there had been deformation 
but that the shape is natural. 
Sr. Felipe Poey, who examined at Havana, about twenty years 
ago, two crania found by Sr. Ferrer, believed that one of them 
was perfectly natural. Sr. Rodriquez Ferrer himself did not 
_ believe them to be Carib, relying mainly upon the belief that we 
never had Caribs in Cuba. Indeed, they never came in their 
In 1512 an abandoned vessel was discovered on the coast of 
Guanimar, south side of Cuba. No trace of its crew was after- 
ward found. Peter Martyr, from his library in Spain wrote that 
they were devoured by anthropophagous savages. 
On the contrary Las Casas says: “ This has not the slightest __ 
eppearance of truth. No one has been able to prove that the 
veda there are any such people—have ever traveled so far 
om their islands, which are Guadeloupe and Dominica, situated 
and at l'Espagnole (Saint Domingo) only now and then. Those — 
who speak like Peter Martyr take their fancies for’ realities! = 
The Phrase, “if there are any,” applied to the Caribs would 
r to the east of San Juan (Porto Rico). I believe that they te 
appear a little strange from the pen of sucha great authority. — 
Re i ; ee 
o presented at Madrid, March 24, by Srs. Graells, Vilanova and Perez 
ac < ri 
Casas, Historia de las Indias. Madrid, 1875, 111, 484» 
